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Gaba KulkaWarszawa, Poland

Progressive pop: a motley mixture of styles, from jazz, to piano rock, to weillesque cabaret. Gaba Kulka has written and
recorded four albums of her own songs, and she continues to play live and partake in numerous genre-bending projects ranging from electronica to heavy-metal covers....more

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My hair gets curly in Taiwan, I guess I’m happy when
I’m there
Quit telling me that it’s because of all the hot and
humid air
My sun goes up when your sun goes down
My heart was damaged in my sleep, but when I dream
I’m on the mend
I melt into the storyline until I don’t know where I am
And the flag drops down, and the world exhales
The escape artist, the escapist is nowhere to be found
– she’s gone
Slipping away into other people’s fantasies, the places
she calls home – bye, bye
And the language that she speaks you will
never understand
Until you sell your soul to the pictures
running through your
Shooting through your brain
Bombs away

Track Name: Bad Wolf

Don’t follow, I just don’t follow
Must have grown old when I wasn’t looking
I’m sorry, I’m in a hurry
All this beauty crashing into me incessantly
I need a deadline I need a friend

and all this light making my eyes water
and all the noise making my heart shudder
and all the brilliance driving me homesick
How come?

It’s always out there, not in here
It’s a wild-goose chase
through the middle of time

Track Name: Phantom Limb

Like a man in an accident I keep moving in shock
I’m doing the things I normally do
I’m doing the things I normally do
Standing up straight with a broken back
and I’m not even thinking
I’m not even thinking
I’m not even thinking about you

There and then I was certain that a phantom limb
is better than none, better than none
I wish I was wrong, it’s better than none
Limping along to the same sad song
I never should be singing
never should be singing
I never should be singing alone

it goes
If there is love in my heart, I will make it
If there is love in my heart, I will make it
If there is love in my heart, I will make it
If there is love in my heart, I will make it
yeah
right

kill the first thing that you see on your way back home
your children have grown they won’t meet you along the road
now that you know what you know and your heart’s grown cold

come along now
pay your dues

The beast made a promise and promise it always keeps
and your job’s to keep all your children off the streets
your mastodon heart doesn’t know where to stop it
just beats
and it beats and it beats and it beats

and it charges blindly it charges blindly
it charges blindly it charges blindly ahead
ahead

a good man is hard to find
placid and anodyne
but you’re made of blood and clay
you’re made of blood and clay
so toil toil toil
toil toil toil

the beast made a promise and promise it always keeps
your mastodon heart doesn’t know where to stop it
just beats
and it beats and it beats

and it charges blindly it charges blindly
it charges blindly it charges blindly ahead
ahead

Light another one I don’t mind
what’s a little smokescreen between friends
It’s Wednesday night or Tuesday morning
I’m so glad you’re here just
watching this woman dissolve
anytime anything brings her little red heart to a boil

See, they’d trust her with a baby
they wouldn’t trust her with a dog
they say a mad-busy schedule
wouldn’t allow for regular walks
so she draws an escape route
and dreams about never getting caught

But tonight with her confidence gone
drawing the smoke spilling out of your lips
don’t worry – tomorrow

she will be back to falling in love with character actors
who will distract her with local accents
and who’s to say
it’s easier that way
than drowning in all your nicotine smoke

She can’t understand how some people can
hold balance while standing still
and each time she moves closer, she feels safe, she
knows that
she’s got that escape route tattooed underneath all
these clothes

she tells you she loves
drawing the smoke spilling out of your lips
don’t ask her about it tomorrow

she will be back to falling in love with character actors
who will distract her with locals accents
and who’s to say
it’s safer that way
than drowning in all your nicotine

she’s back to falling in love

and that’s not to say
she likes it that way
when she feels really broken
she’ll turn into a joke
and say: I’m breathing
I’m still breathing, I’m only breathing
I don’t really smoke

Track Name: X

I wish I could swing, I wish I could swing
I wish that this thing was more than a theme song
for sad little girls with rock and roll dreams
born in an armour of t-shirt and jeans
come on

love is simple, love is pure

I’m looking at you, and oh what a view
I’m loving the angles, I’m loving the colours
what do I do, what do I do
Mother of god, what do I do

You’re so deliciously opinionated, so full of yourself
I beg you don’t explain, I’m buying everything you sell

love is simple, love is pure
love is easy, love is hard

I look damaged by day, damaged by day
but I blossom in fluorescent light
to be honest with you I don’t care what you say
you haven’t seen me in f luorescent light
You offer a philosophy, stunting me erotically
to be taken seriously
well fuck
that

So deliciously opinionated, so full of yourself
I beg you don’t explain, I’m buying everything you sell

Why don’t we just skip to the part when my heart
goes ah, ah, ah
Why don’t we just skip to the part when my heart
goes [*woof*]
Why don’t we just skip to the part when my heart
goes crack, crack, crack
Why don’t we just skip my heart altogether and fall
into the black
fall into the black

come on

love is simple, love is pure
love is easy, love is hard

Track Name: Christmas Party Song

The snow has covered up the street
the snow has covered up my mind
it felt solitary and delicious
How does a thought lodge in your head
so full and yet so underfed
and fills you with sweet superstition

We walked past a closed candy store
I pressed my face against the glass
Cliché, oh joy, oh horror
Then later in that crowded room
the drunken voice of reason sat down close to me
and softly he implored:

Try not to fall in love, and keep your wits about you
Put on an armour with a charm-repellent shine and
try not to fuck it up – this is important stuff
I know your heart’s as full as a water balloon
It’s a little too much a little too soon
So spare yourself the suffering, girl, I guarantee
you’ll end up blue
trust me, I’ve experience of a similar circumstance of
Trying not to fall in love with you

And as that final thought rang by
I could hear a jangling, breaking sound
of a 1000 new year’s resolutions
and all the smarts acquired by then
and all the self-help, and all the Zen
were lost like small change between cushions

If only this was a little more perfect it’d be easy to ignore
but it’s flawed and therefore beautiful
As a friend I should lend a hand
Probably try to make it easier not to

fall in love and keep your wits about you
Put on an armour with a charm-repellent shine
and try not to fuck it up – this is important stuff
I know your heart’s as full as a water balloon
It’s a little too much a little too soon
So spare yourself the suffering, boy, I guarantee
you’ll end up blue
trust me, I’ve experience of a similar circumstance of
trying not to fall
trying not to fall in love
I’m trying not to fall in love with you